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48 results for adaptive prediction areas

JAPAN uses flow-based models to create adaptive prediction areas with better coverage guarantees.

problem Inadequate prediction areas from existing conformal prediction methods, especially for multimodal distributions.
method JAPAN employs density-based conformity scores using flow-based models to construct context-adaptive prediction areas.
result JAPAN produces more accurate and context-adaptive prediction areas compared to existing methods.

Enhances ocean floor mapping with adaptive uncertainty estimates.

problem Inaccurate bathymetric data for precise ocean modeling.
method Block-based conformal prediction with VQ-VAE architecture.
result Significant improvements in reconstruction quality and uncertainty estimation reliability.

Population attributes are essential in health for understanding who the data represents and precision medicine efforts. Even within disease infection labels, patients can exhibit significant variability; "fever" may mean something different when reported in a doctor's office versus from an online app, precluding direct…

2018-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Accurate real time crime prediction is a fundamental issue for public safety, but remains a challenging problem for the scientific community. Crime occurrences depend on many complex factors. Compared to many predictable events, crime is sparse. At different spatio-temporal scales, crime distributions display dramatica…

2017-07-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Adapts Altman's model to compositional data for bankruptcy prediction.

problem Predicting business default using standard financial ratios has issues.
method Uses compositional data methodology with log-ratios and machine learning.
result Compositional methods improve predictive performance, especially random forests.

VSPS creates flexible prediction regions for multi-target regression with guaranteed coverage.

problem Uncertainty quantification in multi-target regression with complex distributions.
method Conditional normalizing flows with conformal calibration to identify dense regions.
result VSPS produces smaller, more informative prediction regions with robust coverage guarantees.

Adaptive filters are applied in several electronic and communication devices like smartphones, advanced headphones, DSP chips, smart antenna, and teleconference systems. Also, they have application in many areas such as system identification, channel equalization, noise reduction, echo cancellation, interference cancel…

2019-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We develop and evaluate tolerance interval methods for dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs) that can provide more detailed prognostic information to patients who will follow an estimated optimal regime. Although the problem of constructing confidence intervals for DTRs has been extensively studied, prediction and tolerance…

2017-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Expanding the receptive field to capture large-scale context is key to obtaining good performance in dense prediction tasks, such as human pose estimation. While many state-of-the-art fully-convolutional architectures enlarge the receptive field by reducing resolution using strided convolution or pooling layers, the mo…

2019-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm improves Bayesian neural networks using adaptive importance sampling.

problem High computational cost in training Bayesian neural networks.
method Adaptive Importance Sampling (AIS) integrated into a novel algorithm (PMCnet).
result Improved performance and exploration capabilities for both shallow and deep neural networks.

Predictive policing models can be biased by differential crime reporting rates.

problem Bias in predictive policing models due to differential crime reporting.
method Simulation based on Bogotá, Colombia's victimization and crime reporting data.
result Differential crime reporting rates can lead to misallocation of police patrols.

Method estimates uncertainty in spatial predictions by defining an 'area of applicability'.

problem Uncertainty in predictions for new geographic locations far from training data.
method Proposes a dissimilarity index (DI) based on minimum distance to training data, and defines the 'area of applicability' (AOA) using a threshold on DI.
result Prediction error within the AOA is comparable to the cross-validation error of the model, while cross-validation error does not apply outside the AOA.

Predicts clinical events using a landmark approach with machine learning for large biomarker histories.

problem Dynamic prediction of clinical events from large biomarker histories.
method Landmark approach extended to endogenous markers history combined with machine learning methods for survival data.
result Superlearner combining regularized regressions and random survival forests outperforms standard survival models.

Automation of machine learning model development is increasingly becoming an established research area. While automated model selection and automated data pre-processing have been studied in depth, there is, however, a gap concerning automated model adaptation strategies when multiple strategies are available. Manually…

2018-12-27abs ↗pdf ↗

As one of standard approaches to train deep neural networks, dropout has been applied to regularize large models to avoid overfitting, and the improvement in performance by dropout has been explained as avoiding co-adaptation between nodes. However, when correlations between nodes are compared after training the networ…

2018-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Adapts AUM to identify ambiguous tasks in crowdsourced learning, improving generalization.

problem Discerning ambiguous tasks in crowdsourced labels to prevent mislabeling.
method Introduces Weighted Areas Under the Margin (WAUM) to average AUMs weighted by task-specific scores.
result Improves generalization performance by discarding ambiguous tasks.

Random forests and LASSO methods improve small area estimation using auxiliary data.

problem Estimating household consumption in small areas with limited sampled data.
method Model-based small area estimation using random forests and LASSO with auxiliary information.
result Bayesian shrinkage performed best in terms of bias, MSE, and prediction interval coverages.

New approach uses autoregressive models to explore and quantify uncertainty in decision-making.

problem Quantifying and exploring uncertainty in online decision-making.
method Reformulates uncertainty as missing future outcomes, training autoregressive models for next-outcome prediction.
result Establishes a reduction from online learning to offline next-outcome prediction, controlling Bayesian regret by sequence prediction loss.

New methods for predicting compositional data using conformal prediction.

problem No well-established methods for constructing valid prediction sets in compositional data.
method Investigated three conformal prediction-based approaches for Dirichlet regression models.
result HDR approximation approach is robust in terms of coverage, while grid discretization reduces overcoverage.

Recent reinforcement learning algorithms, though achieving impressive results in various fields, suffer from brittle training effects such as regression in results and high sensitivity to initialization and parameters. We claim that some of the brittleness stems from variance differences, i.e. when different environmen…

2019-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

A new DQN algorithm improves portfolio management and risk assessment in digital assets.

problem Singular prediction mode and limited data source in deep learning models for asset management.
method Introduced DQN algorithm into asset management portfolios, considering market risk.
result Performance exceeds benchmark, proving DRL algorithm's effectiveness in portfolio management.

Study minimizes Willmore energy with constraints on surface properties.

problem Minimizing Willmore energy under specific surface properties.
method Adapting Keller-Mondino-Rivière, Bauer-Kuwert, and Ndiaye-Schätzle methods.
result Existence of smooth minimizers for a broad range of constraints.

The use of computational methods to evaluate aesthetics in photography has gained interest in recent years due to the popularization of convolutional neural networks and the availability of new annotated datasets. Most studies in this area have focused on designing models that do not take into account individual prefer…

2019-07-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a tabular transformer model to maintain feature effect intelligibility.

problem Losing marginal feature effects in deep tabular transformer networks.
method Adapts tabular transformer networks to identify marginal feature effects.
result The model accurately identifies marginal feature effects, matching black-box performance while maintaining intelligibility.

JANET improves time series prediction with adaptive uncertainty regions.

problem Time series data's lack of exchangeability and multi-step prediction challenges.
method Proposes JANET, a framework for joint adaptive prediction regions with controlled error rates.
result Demonstrates superior performance in multi-step prediction tasks across diverse datasets.

Paper proposes a new framework for predictive optimization without training data.

problem Prediction in a new domain without training samples.
method Proposes a simple framework for predictive optimization with zero-shot domain adaptation.
result Demonstrates the potential usefulness of the proposed framework through numerical experiments.